“With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.” 2 Corinthians 8:18
When I was at the 2012 Together For The Gospel meeting, there was a panel discussion on celebrity pastors.
Dr. Carl Trueman was on the panel, cautioning against the perils and
dangers of the celebrity pastor. While I certainly agreed with the
majority of his concerns and cautions, I wanted to ask him if he taught a
“celebrity” church history class. In other words, did he focus on the
pastors/theologians that no one had ever heard of, or did he cover
Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and the many other “famous” figures in church
history? After all, he did mention that Luther was the first celebrity
pastor in Protestantism. Surely he teaches about the lives and
ministries of celebrities in his church history class.
The Biblical and historical fact of the matter on celebrity pastors
is this: The LORD sovereignly chooses to make people great in the eyes
of the world for the purpose of making His own name great and to be a
blessing to the world through the Gospel. Continue at Joseph Randall
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